2014 Dodecahedron Cartographic Review

The 2014 Dodecahedron Cartographic Review is a 95-page curated collection of most of the maps and descriptions thereof that appeared on Dyson's Dodecahedron throughout 2014. Designed to be a letter-sized spiral bound book, this digital edition also includes a second version of the book where many of the maps have been resized (larger) to better fit the page once all the text has been removed.

Unlike the maps of Dyson's Delves I and Dyson's Delves II, the maps I drew for the Dodecahedron in 2014 were predominantly drawn on letter-sized paper, so a different format of map book was needed for this review of the year's cartography. This book does include a number of maps that did not appear in high resolution versions on the blog that year, however - a dozen maps that were drawn for commissioned projects where I have now reacquired the rights for this one special annual collection. In this collection you get almost all the maps I produced throughout 2014 collected in one place, sequenced and annotated.

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